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Friday, July 31, 202655 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

Rescoring the same GPT-3 outputs turns a leap into a slope

Schaeffer, Miranda, and Koyejo's 2023 rebuttal turns Wei et al.'s sharpest curves smooth by rescoring the same outputs. It leaves open exactly what a deployment needs to know: when the metric it depends on will cross the line.

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Technical Practice · Expert Tools

files-to-prompt folds a slice of a repo into one prompt, file by file

Behind the single command sits a 334-line script that has not been touched in seventeen months, still doing exactly the job it shipped to do.

10 min read20 sources
Investing · Investing Course

Costco turns each invested dollar into 37 cents of profit

American Electric Power's return on that same kind of capital sits well below what its own regulators call fair, the test that decides whether a company's growth creates value or destroys it.

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Current Affairs · Unbiased

The Fed Held Rates 9-3 in July. Three of Its Own Presidents Wanted to Hike.

Lorie Logan and two fellow regional Fed presidents dissented from Kevin Warsh's 9-3 hold, arguing that five years of above-target inflation demands a rate increase, while economists such as Mark Zandi and Janet Yellen call the inflation a tariff-and-energy supply shock no hike can fix.

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Daily Reading · Current Events

Two Senate Republicans stall Blanche's attorney general nomination

Cornyn and Tillis are withholding votes until the Justice Department guarantees a $1.776 billion IRS settlement stays closed, and Trump says he may pull the nomination until both leave office in January.

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Daily Reading · Tech News

A single HTTP request could hijack any unpatched Ruflo AI agent

Noma Security's CVSS-10.0 disclosure traces the hole to Ruflo's own Docker defaults, and the fix stops new attacks without undoing damage already done.

4 min read9 sources
Daily Reading · Word of the Day

A Sound No Ephraimite Could Fake Decided Who Crossed the Jordan Alive

Judges counts forty-two thousand Ephraimite dead across the whole war with Gilead, and a 2023 study notes the same involuntary test still sorting Ukrainian speakers from Russian ones.

4 min read8 sources